Bond made a brief statement at the start of tonight's selectman's meeting, pushed his gavel aside and walked out of the room. While some people in the room looked surprised, members of the board did not react. Instead they elected a new chairman and continued the meeting.

“This becomes all consuming and I don’t feel like being consumed,” Bond said in an interview earlier in the day at his Main Street law office.

Bond, who had been on the board for nearly five years and served as the board’s chairman this year, has been a target gambling opponents. But in recent weeks, he has spoken out against fellow board members who he says are ignoring an opportunity to improve the town’s $7 million per year contract with the tribe.

"This board is not doing their due diligence to support the financial interest of Middleboro on this project. Adam is," Mark Belanger, a long-time casino opponent and Middleboro resident said after Bond resigned. "I support him completely on this matter."

Bond's call to renegotiate the Wampanoag's contract with the town has put him squarely in the middle of a battle that has been waged among neighbors since the tribe bid on a 125-acre tract of land at a public auction in April 2007.

“I’m tired. I’m just sheerly exhausted from all of this,” he said this morning. “I think I can do more standing on the outside screaming in than I can from up there.”

Since mid-December, when former Mashpee Wampanoag Chairman Glenn Marshall admitted to federal corruption and fraud charges, Bond has been pushing fellow board members to seize the opportunity to sweeten the casino deal. Bond has repeatedly said Marshall’s crimes could constitute a breach of contract with the town because Marshall was the person making promises to the town on the tribe’s behalf.

His fellow board members resisted, calling only for a meeting with the tribe’s new leaders who will be elected Feb. 8.

Last Wednesday, Bond lashed out at the board on his blog, specifically citing Selectman Mimi Duphily for contacting the tribe’s political consultant, Stephen Graham, and other tribe members.“I am concerned that the town’s interests and/or strategies are being overlooked (and leaked) for some esoteric and emotional reason relating to how certain individuals feel about the tribal members on a personal level,” Bond wrote.